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Disregard. Turns out I was misunderstanding an `esc` error message telling me that I was using an environment that references the stage I just removed. If you have this issue, check your `esc` environment to make sure you aren't using an environment with an `app:`
reference to the very environment you are trying to `pulumi up`

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~Howdy. We have a bug of some sort after performing `pulumi stack rm --force`~

~Now when we're doing a `pulumi up` to recreate the stack, we're getting:~

```error: getting stack configuration: opening environment: [0] 
Diags: missing Stack resource ```
~We've attempted `pulumi refresh` and `pulumi destroy` to try and completely remove the stack, but there's something preventing us from creating a new Stack resource~

We performed the `pulumi stack rm --force`  because we got a snapshot integrity failure and thought we could manually delete a vpc from amazon and then call  `pulumi stack rm`

We attempted the same deploy on a second machine, and it appears this is a server-side error from pulumi

```pulumi stack export
{
    "version": 1,
    "deployment": {
        "manifest": {
            "time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "magic": "",
            "version": ""
        }
    }
}```